Making a Murderer Season 2 Finally Gets a Netflix Release Date

Netflix’s wildly popular Making a Murderer documentary series is returning for a second season on Oct. 19.

Filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, who won multiple Emmy Awards for the show’s first season, went back to the Midwest to interview Steven Avery and co-defendant and nephew Brendan Dassey, the supposed crimes and ensuing prosecutions and convictions of whom were the focal points of Season 1.

Season 2 will spend 10 episodes showing audiences the postconviction process and its effects on those involved.

The second season will introduce Avery’s post-conviction lawyer, Kathleen Zellner, and chronicle her legal battle to prove Avery’s claimed innocence in the murder of photographer Teresa Halbach.

Netflix claims that Zellner has successfully had more wrongful convictions overturned than any other private attorney in America. The season will follow Zellner’s work to discover new evidence proving Avery’s innocence and showing what she believes to be the truth of Halbach’s murder.

Dassey’s post-conviction lawyers, Laura Nirider and Steven Drizin of Northwestern University’s Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, will also feature heavily in Season 2. Nirider and Drizin will be shown fighting in federal court to prove Dassey’s conviction to being an accessory to Halbach’s murder was involuntary. It’s a fight they’re willing to extend all the way up to the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Dassey’s conviction was overturned in 2016, a ruling that was upheld by a higher court in 2017. That decision, however, was eventually overturned and the original conviction again upheld. In June, the Supreme Court declined to hear arguments to again overturn the conviction.

“Steven and Brendan, their families and their legal and investigative teams have once again graciously granted us access, giving us a window into the complex web of American criminal justice,” said executive producers, writers and directors Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos in a prepared statement from Netflix. “Building on Part 1, which documented the experience of the accused, in Part 2, we have chronicled the experience of the convicted and imprisoned, two men each serving life sentences for crimes they maintain they did not commit. We are thrilled to be able to share this new phase of the journey with viewers.”